Convoy QP 15

Convoy QP.15
Part of Second World War
Date 17–30 November 1942 Location Arctic Ocean
Belligerents
Germany	United Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Admiral Karl Dönitz	WC Meek (Comm.)
Strength
10 U-boats	32 merchant ships 30 escorts
Casualties and losses
none	2 ships sunk 1 lost in storm

Convoy QP 15 was an Arctic convoy of the PQ/QP series which ran during the Second World War. It was one of a series of convoys run to return Allied ships to home ports in the United Kingdom from the northern ports of the Soviet Union.It sailed in November 1942 and was the last convoy in the "QP" series. It was scattered by a storm which sank the Soviet destroyer Sokrushitelny and was attacked by U-boats of the German Navy which sank two of the thirty merchant ships.^[1]